Beginner to Adding Animals with BFAV

[Silvara Dal'Winter]

I have played Stardew Valley off and on again for years. and in my most recent run I find myself wanting to add some new animals to my barn and coop. While I love the animals that are part of the base game I have used re-skins to make them different for new flavor. But I also find myself just wanting... More. To do a run where I spend more time raising animals then tending crops. So I have been browsing the Nexus for mods and all of them either replace the base animals or need BFAV to add animals. SO I installed BFAV and think it's working but I can't seem to find any sort of guide on how one is meant to actually install new animals as not all of the mods that are built on BFAV seem to be updated to add their animals in the same way.

At this point there are 5 mods I would like to use to add their animals to the game but each of them seems to be very different in the files they give me and mostly give a general put x in this file in BFAV and I am not even sure they will all work. I was hoping to find some sort of beginners guide to BFAV and how to add animals on here but so far I have had no luck.

The Modded Animals I want are:
For my Coop-
BFAV Dragons (I want the Coop Version)(And would like to rename them to Mini-Drakes) https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/3991z
BFAV Phoenixes https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/4846

For my Barn-
(CP)(BFAV) Everia's Dragons (Which I would like to Rename to High Dragons) https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/4467
Lung Dragons (Better Farm Animal Variety-BFAV or CP-Content Patcher) (Name is great just the way it is) https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/5761
BFAV Neo's Griffins https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/6570

If anyone can give me at least a basics guide on how to do this I would be very greatful.

 

[xerxia]

I would also like some help here, I have the same problem. Some of the BFAV mods load right, but others dont and the SMAPI log says: category will not load: Object reference not set to an instance of an object not sure what is different about these mods

 

[Silvara Dal'Winter]

Well to add a new factor into this. Currently have the current version of BFAV removed from my game as it was making my pigs dig up weeds rather then truffles. NO idea what that was happening and it was driving me crazy as the only other mod I had that touched pigs was a reskin to make them look like Boars which does not touch anything but their skin.

 

[xerxia]

I read on another post that BFAV also makes Ostriches not hatch. Gonna remove it from my game also, don't want pig weeds!